281631 - Thunderbird adds extra lines when I reply to a quoted mail message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144998

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Stefan Hedlund]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

The original mail message looks something like this:
>> bla bla bla bla bla bla
>> bla bla bla bla bla bla 
>> bla bla bla 
>
> some comment on that. bla bla bla
> bla bla bla bla bla bla 

and so on. bla bla bla bla bla bla 
bla bla bla bla bla bla 


-------------------------------------------------
But when I press reply, the text that appears in the message compose window
looks like this:
>>> bla bla bla bla bla bla
>>> bla bla bla bla bla bla 
>>> bla bla bla 
>>
>>
>> some comment on that. bla bla bla
>> bla bla bla bla bla bla 
>
>
> and so on. bla bla bla bla bla bla 
> bla bla bla bla bla bla 
>
>

After every "reply level" thunderbird inserts one extra line, making the message
longer. Every time I reply to a mail message I have to manually delete these
lines to keep the messages to being filled with annoying empty space. This exact
problem also occured in Netscape 7.01 (and earlier) which I used until a couple
of months ago. I was surprised to see the same behavior when I switched to
Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply to a mail message containg lines quoted with ">"
Actual Results:  
There are extra lines in the text that weren't there before.

Expected Results:  
The text should have been exactly the same as in the message replied to, except
that a ">" is added to the beginning of each line.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144998 ***